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Nov 25, 2008

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Kari

Your emerergency kit should include easily accessible change of clothes (for everyone) so your husband isn't trying to dig clothes out of the suitcase in the carrier on top of the car while it is pouring down rain.

Casey

I didn't see anything here about a portable DVD player. Heheh.

JessPond

-if your kids like snack variety, take a bunh of kinds of puffs, yogurt bites, etc and mix them all up and put them back in the plastic tubes that the gerber puffs come in. We also use the old puffs cans to easy take along animal crackers, cheese puffs, etc.

-I like to pack a big (or two) "extras" diaper bag with lots of diapers, a change of clothes, wipes, etc...and then a smaller bag with a few diapers, snacks, cups, etc in it that is all we need to take out when we stop. Just enough. Carrying all the extra crap you *might* need in and out of places gets old.

-we prefill the sippies and cups and bottles with the right amounts of water for watering down juice or making formula....that way they don't spoil, but they're good to go for the whole trip...then you can just dump in the formula or use small bottles of juice to fill the sippies.

-Combi makes rocking strollers for trips. They fold up VERY VERY nicely.

-ALSO...get thee some cargo bags! On our inlaws van and our Navigator, you can fit two tule cargo bags if need be. That way you don't have to have everything IN the car if you don't need it. We often travel with our two kids and my husband's parents, so we need all the room we can get.

-Cars with fold down seats are SO nice. Or partially folding back seats, so that you can get a kid or two in the last row and still fold one or two of the seats down for packing stuff.

-And yeah. DVD player. Rock on. :)

We go on a lot of vacations...and they're almost always 14 hour trips...can you tell? :)

MommyNamedApril

mine are 15 mo apart and currently just turned two (last week!) and about 8mo... we've done the long drive many times and my biggest suggestions would be

1. bring many many spare pacifiers if your kids take them. the last thing you want to do is stop every 20 minutes to hunt down the paci

and

2. bring several toys/books that they've either never seen before or haven't seen in a long time.

MaryBeth @ FourSillySisters

For a long car trip with the newly potty trained, we bring along our own potty chair, wipes, a roll of paper towels, and a stash of plastic bags kept easily accessible in back.... sometimes it is a better option than a public restroom.

evelonies

i recommend buying diapers once you get there, just brng enough in teh car to get you there, you can always buy more if you run out. we have a sedan that doesn't have much room in the trunk, so when we road trip it, we're always looking for ways to save space. one trip we took, i even bought a stroller at my destination b/c it was just cheaper and easier in the long run.

toys - we rear-face to the limits of the carseat, so i just took a bunch of those plastic links and attached 1 end to the hook behind the backseat, and attached toys to the other end. that way ds wasn't crying when he dropped his toys, he could grab them again himself. it was nice not to have to pull over every 10 minutes to fish a toy out of another seat.

Beth

Ah yes a dvd player! A must!!

And yes I second the cargo bag for storing stuff on your roof.

Stopping at play areas is awesome to.

-beth (mom to W, Super N & Baby J (16.5 months and 20 months apart)
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